Election Day is one week away. We can’t say which presidential candidate will win the most votes in some Washington counties, but we’re pretty confident about 22 counties shown as red or blue in the adjacent map.

The evergreen state as a whole has been everblue in presidential politics since 1988, when Democrat Michael Dukakis won the state’s electoral votes. Republican George H W Bush won the national race that year, but he was the first to lose the state in what would become a seven election cycle winning streak for the Democrats. But just because the state votes blue these days, don’t assume every part of the state does. Some counties are solid Republican just as others are solid Democrat. These are the monochromatic counties; they’re either Republican red or Democrat blue.

We studied the voting results in past presidential elections and discovered three interesting facts:

No county has been loyal to either major party throughout its history.

Except for Douglas County, all counties have picked third party candidates at least once.

Some election years have seen the state make huge political swings.

On that third fact, for instance, almost all Washington counties voted Democrat (Lyndon Johnson) in 1964, and nearly all went Republican (Ronald Reagan) in 1984. But such consensus is rare and since we’re searching here for counties voting consistently on one side or the other, we decided to use 1988 as our benchmark to put all that warm and fuzzy consensus behind us. We were left with 22 counties that haven’t veered from one political party or the other for (at least) the last seven elections. For the fun of it, we included the years and candidates from the other party that last tickled their presidential fancy.